{"id":1174,"date":"2014-03-12T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2025-03-29T21:55:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T03:55:38","slug":"ten-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/12\/ten-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" src=\"http:\/\/random-musings.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Brain_Sagittal_Section-300x209-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1175\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Over the years, I\u2019ve been told over and over again that we only use 10% of our brains \u2013 and how wonderful it would be if we could learn to use the other 90%. Sometimes the numbers vary \u2013 down to 7%, as much as 20% \u2013 but there was always the idea that we could multiply our mind power 5 to 10 times. Imagine how powerful we\u2019d be then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The claim is often prefaced by \u201cMedical science says\u2026\u201d or \u201cScience has discovered\u2026\u201d but they never tell you where they say it. That\u2019s because medical science <em>doesn\u2018t<\/em> say it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s compelling evidence that we use all of our brains. Almost any injury to brain tissue brings some loss of function. We don\u2019t have cases where someone sustains a brain injury, but fortunately it was to that 90% he wasn\u2019t using, so he\u2019s OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Until the last decades of the 20th Century, we had no way to know how much of our brains was being used. Only with PET scans and fMRI\u2019s were we able to start exploring this area. Science has discovered that we use all of our brains. There isn\u2019t any 90% for us to tap into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Developing the mind is fine, but you\u2019ll have to use the same 100% of your brain you\u2019ve always been using. You\u2019ll just have to use it more effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I\u2019ve been told over and over again that we only use 10% of our brains \u2013 and how wonderful it would be if we could learn to use the other 90%. Sometimes the numbers vary \u2013 down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/12\/ten-percent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}